Zeng Mu had to admit that this was the first time he had seen a girl this beautiful. With her beauty so close at hand, he forgot that Ma Linya and Yenaier were every bit her equal.
The woman did not look at him. From the very beginning, her attention had been entirely fixed on Suoliya beside him, leaving her no time to notice anyone else.
"Oh, Yuan Qian, what are you doing here?" Suoliya asked in surprise.
Only then did Zeng Mu realize that this girl was Yuan Qian, the young lady of the Yuan Family.
Recalling the conversation he had overheard in the tavern, he studied the beauty before him more closely. She truly deserved her reputation as the most beautiful woman in Kuo City. Those drunkards had not exaggerated in the slightest.
"Let me have a look." Yuan Qian did not answer his question. She placed both hands on his shoulders and looked him up and down, as though she intended to examine every inch of him.
"Phew, thank goodness. You don't seem to be hurt." Only then did she sigh in relief.
After calming herself, she said, "I heard that people from the Shen Family came looking for trouble with you. When I first heard the news, I nearly fainted. Those people are no good, and they must have brought weapons if they came after you. I thought they'd taken you away. But while I was on my way out of the city toward the Shen Family's estate, I heard that you'd appeared at the Performance Hall, so I rushed straight here. I'd barely been here two minutes when I saw you come out of the main entrance."
"Oh, so that's what happened. Why would you worry about such a little thing? Ah, well, I suppose